Meaning

6 senses
  1. (transitive)To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.

    When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.

    bespritzen

    обры́згиватьobrýzgivatʹ, обры́згатьobrýzgatʹ

    spot, splash, or soil

  2. (figuratively, transitive)To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.

  3. (transitive)To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.

    to spatter blood

    spritzen, sprühen

  4. (figuratively, transitive)To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.

  5. (intransitive)To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).

    Make sure the pieces of fish are dry before you put them into the hot oil so that it doesn’t spatter.

  6. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive)To injure by aspersion; to defame.

    1647, John Hall, “A Genethliacon to the Infant Muse of his dearest Friend” in Poems, London: J. Rothwell, Let envy spatter what it can, This Embryon will prove a man.

    besudeln

Examples

14 sentences
  1. There were blood spatters on the wall.

    ruНа стене были кровавые брызги. — marafon

  2. Layla's body was spattered with blood.

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  3. He that praises himself, spatters himself.

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  4. Dan found blood spatter on the wall.

  5. A man was injured by lava spatter.

    deEin Mann wurde von Lavaspritzern versehrt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to splash with small droplets:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to splash with small droplets:
to distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around:
to injure by aspersion, defame:

Origin

Probably from Middle Low German or Dutch spatten (“to spout, burst”) + -er (frequentative

Probably from Middle Low German or Dutch spatten (“to spout, burst”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Related to spit (“saliva”).

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Forms

spatters, spattering, spattered, spattered
Base formspatter · to spatter
3rd person singularspatters
Present participlespattering
Past simplespattered
Past participlespattered

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyspatter
he, she, itspatters

Past simpleLesson

all personsspattered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave spattered
he, she, ithas spattered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill spatter

Synonyms

82 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

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